Level 1
Auslan Level 1
Content:
Level 1 focuses on the basics, introducing you to Auslan, fingerspelling, numbers, Deaf culture and community, and the beginning of grammar and sentence structure. By the end of Level 1, you will be able to have short conversations, introduce yourselves and tell us about your family and friends, understand short monologues, ask questions, and will be gradually adding to your vocabulary bank.
Classes are interactive, fun, engaging, with lots of hands-on activities to help you learn, practice, revise, and retain new knowledge.
Class sizes are capped at 10 students so there is plenty of opportunity for individual feedback and support.
Level 1 is run over 9 weeks at 1.5 hours per week.
You will cover:
Focus on Fingerspelling
- Orientation of hands
- A – Z
- Responding to questions with fingerspelling
- Double letter words
- Expressive and receptive skills
- Fingerspelling patterns –ing, -ious, -ion, -ck
- Reading fingerspelling and improving fluency
- Assessment and correction of articulation
Navigating Numbers
- 0 – 100
- Thousands
- Millions
- Billions
- All cardinal numbers
- Lists and order
- Incorporation of numbers into age, time, timelines, pronouns and more
Culture Close-Up
- History of Auslan
- Similarities and differences between different signed languages internationally
- Types of signing
- The role of fingerspelling
- Variation in Auslan signs around Australia
- Communicating with Deaf people
- Lipreading challenges
- Terminology
- Deaf identity
- Gaining a Deaf person’s attention
- Clapping
- Physical proximity
- Eye contact
- Deaf introductions
- The long goodbye
- The round table
- Kitchen/lighting, noise
- Directness/bluntness
- Sign names
- Technology for the Deaf including:
- Hearing assistive technologies
- Deaf adaptive technologies (visual alerting devices, auditory to text conversion, English/Auslan translation/interpreting), and
- Deaf-friendly technology
- Deaf world inc Deaf organisations, Deaf groups, Deaf arts, Deaf sports, Deaf education, Deaf business
- How to connect with the Deaf community
- Opportunities for further Auslan learning
Grammar Guidance
- Questions v statements
- Classifiers/depicting signs:
- Proform
- Descriptive (SASS – size and shape specifiers)
- Close/distant Focus (surrogate vs token space)
- HOLME – Handshape, Orientation, Location, Movement, Expression
- Basic grammatical structure and syntax
- Topicalisation
- Rhetorical questions
- Pronouns, possessive pronouns, multiple pronouns
- Negation and affirmation
- Agreement and disagreement
- Answering questions with a verb
- Directional verbs
- Number of referents/participants
- Adverbs and auxiliary verbs
- Inflection – manner, intensification, and mood
- Sentence reconfiguration – English to Auslan
Vital Vocab
- Greetings and introductions
- Question words
- Family/relationships
- Health industry
- Double letters
- Timelines
- Colours
- Verbs
- Emotions
Each week, you will receive handouts with further information pertaining to that which has been covered in class, particularly around aspects of culture and grammar. You will also receive a weekly summary of all that was covered and a list of vocab that will be taught the following week.
Upon completion of Level 1, you will receive a certificate of completion and be ready to progress to Level 2.
Unfortunately, due to family circumstances, Term 4 classes have been postponed. Please contact me or check back in December for potential summer school or Term 1, 2023 details.
Costs:
2022 Term 2
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION (15th APRIL)-
9 week course
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1.5 hours per week
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Pay for only 8 weeks
2022 Term 2
UPFRONT PAYMENT-
9 week course
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1.5 hours per week
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Receive a $45 discount
2022 Term 2
PAYMENT PLAN-
9 week course
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1.5 hours per week
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$30 per week
Special Offer
Get 1 other person to sign up and receive 20% off your course.
Get 2 other people to sign up and receive 40% off your course.
Get 3 other people to sign up and receive 60% off your course.
Get 4 other people to sign up and receive 80% off your course.
Get 5 other people to sign up and your course is free.
2022 Dates and Times
TERM 2 - OPTION 1 (DAY CLASS)
Wednesdays
1pm – 2.30pm (QLD/NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS time)
12.30pm – 2pm (SA/NT time)
11am – 12.30pm (WA time)
Wk 1 – Wednesday 27th April
Wk 2 – Wednesday 4th May
Wk 3 – Wednesday 11th May
Wk 4 – Wednesday 18th May
Wk 5 – Wednesday 25th May
Wk 6 – Wednesday 1st June
Wk 7 – Wednesday 8th June
Wk 8 – Wednesday 15th June
Wk 9 – Wednesday 22nd June
*Class will only proceed upon enrolment of a minimum of 3 students.
*CLASS CONFIRMED
TERM 2 - OPTION 2 (NIGHT CLASS)
Fridays
7.30pm – 9pm (QLD/NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS time)
7pm – 8.30pm (SA/NT time)
5.30pm – 7pm (WA time)
Wk 1 – Friday 29th April
Wk 2 – Friday 6th May
Wk 3 – Friday 13th May
Wk 4 – Friday 20th May
Wk 5 – Friday 27th May
Wk 6 – Friday 3rd June
Wk 7 – Friday 10th June
Wk 8 – Friday 17th June
Wk 9 – Friday 24th June
*Class will only proceed upon enrolment of a minimum of 3 students.
*CLASS CONFIRMED
TERM 2 - OPTION 3 (SPLIT DAY CLASS)
Tuesdays AND Fridays
Tuesday: 12.30 – 1.15pm (AEST)
AND
Fridays: 12 – 12.45pm (AEST)
Wk 1 – Tues 10th May/Fri 13th May
Wk 2 – Tues 17th May/Fri 20th May
Wk 3 – Tues 24th May/Fri 27th May
Wk 4 – Tues 31st May/Fri 3rd June
Wk 5 – Tues 7th June/Fri 10th June
Wk 6 – Tues 14th June/Fri 17th June
Wk 7 – Tues 21st June/Fri 24th June
Wk 8 – Tues 28th June/Fri 1st July
Wk 9 – Tues 5th July/Fri 8th July
*Class will only proceed upon enrolment of a minimum of 3 students.
*CLASS CONFIRMED
TERM 3 - POSTPONED
Day and Time TBC
Wk 1 – Week of 18th July
Wk 2 – Week of 25th July
Wk 3 – Week of 1st Aug
Wk 4 – Week of 8th Aug
Wk 5 – Week of 15th Aug
Wk 6 – Week of 22nd Aug
Wk 7 – Week of 29th Aug
Wk 8 – Week of 5th Sept
Wk 9 – Week of 12th Sept
TERM 4 - POSTPONED
Day and Time TBC
Wk 1 – Week of 10th Oct
Wk 2 – Week of 17th Oct
Wk 3 – Week of 24th Oct
Wk 4 – Week of 31st Oct
Wk 5 – Week of 7th Nov
Wk 6 – Week of 14th Nov
Wk 7 – Week of 21st Nov
Wk 8 – Week of 28th Nov
Wk 9 – Week of 5th Dec